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We don't know that the punishments were exactly the same, just that they both involved cutting off Josy's access to her phone for 4 days (at which point Josy ran off to B&R and the rest was moot). It's possible there were other restrictions that we never hear about because they are not plot relevant.
But I still think you're underestimating just how important the argument with Monica was. We know Josy was a bundle of anxiety leading up to the date (she'd already quit the mini-mart), and we know she responds extremely negatively to her step family. It seems plausible that even a comparatively minor infraction (like a clandestine date) could blow up into a screaming match that would demand some sort of punishment from her parents: adult or not, she's living under their roof and Monica IS her stepmother.
But I think this is an example of the subjective measurement of "realism" I was talking about earlier. You think it's dumb for Josy's punishment to be so similar despite two different crimes. I think it's within reason given Josy's state of mind and family situation. We can each make our own assessment of the situation and agree to disagree. But either way, the game explicitly offers an explanation for why events played out as they do. It's just not fair to accuse it of ignoring the differences simply because you find those explanations inadequate.
I think you have a much better case for Cathy's infamous panties. There, the game does not offer any explanation for Cathy to remove the telltale undergarments in the heat of the moment. Perhaps DPC had an appropriate explanation and cut it, or perhaps he just forgot about it; either way, it's a detail that was not addressed and therefore is an example of poor writing.
But I'd still say that's the exception rather than the rule in this game.
When is that NOT the case? Is Hamlet invalidated simply because Polonius just happened to eavesdrop on Hamlet when he was in a particularly unhinged mood? I'd say no, but there's no question that was was a convenient turn of events for the story. As I said, arguing about whether a given random event is 'realistic' is rarely fruitful. Better to focus on whether those events provoke interesting results.
As far as this being a teen drama, I'm not sure how that's in doubt. BaDIK is a college-based sex farce; outrageous misunderstandings and angsty melodrama are the whole point of the genre. Now if you're saying DPC will sometimes drive his drama up to 11 when cranking it up to 9 would serve the purpose just as well and put less strain on our suspension of disbelief, then I would agree with you. That is DPC's biggest flaw as a writer, IMHO. I just think that on the whole that flaw is still outweighed by his numerous strengths.
The thing is that Bella's 'help' seems a lot more likely to piss Tybalt off than Jill nodding and smiling through the dates on her own. Tybalt's intentions may be obvious to everyone but Jill, but in the end he just asked for dates. Jill's suffered through bad dates before, surely she can endure three more of them if that's what it takes to keep the MC in the clear.
The way she all but begs Bella for help definitely gives me the impression that Jill is at her wits end. I can't see how that could be the case unless Jill really is dumber than a box of rocks.
Non-existent. Beta testing historically takes 1-2 weeks, but Episode 7 took ~3 weeks. Episode 8 is not only larger, there's also a lot of other material to test thanks to upgrading Ren'Py and the new save transfer system that will be used in Season 3. We should count our blessings if we actually manage to get this by the 19th.
Eh, given the state of Elizabethan computing, it probably would not have become nearly as widespread.
To be serious for a moment, Shakespeare isn't the giant of English literature for his stories (which were nearly all adaptations of classics or historical fiction propagandizing the current monarch). He was renown for his wordplay (which gave us a ridiculous number of metaphors still in use today), and for his characterization. Despite characterization being one of his strong suits, I don't think Dr. Pink Cake is anywhere near that level of mastery. But falling short of the Bard is hardly a useful metric.
